Shoe-scraper.



E. 0. WARTENBB.

SHOE sonunn. APPLICATION FILED APR. 29, 1908.

Patented Dec. 8,1908.

nvenlfop EDGAR O. WARTENBE, OF ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI.

SHOE-SCRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application filed April 29, 1908. Serial No. 430,011.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR O. WARTENBE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Charles, in the county of St. Charles and State of Missouri, have invented a newand useful Shoe-Scraper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe scrapers, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and efficient article for the purpose, by means of which mud may be thoroughly scraped simultaneously from the sole and both sides of a shoe by certain cooperating parts between which the foot is placed and drawn rearwardly. In connection with the side scrapers, and forming a part thereof are scrapers for cleaning the tops of shoes.

The invention comprises a base made of iron, wood or other suitable material on which are mounted the scraper parts made preferably of spring steel wire bent into shape and securely fastened to the base. The sole. scraper is rigid but the side scrapers are spring supported so as to follow the contour of the shoe to be cleaned.

With this object in view the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device complete, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional view through one of the spring supports.

Similar reference numerals are used for the same arts in all the figures.

In the rawing, 1 indicates the base, here shown as of iron, rectangular in general outline and divided at one end into two legs 2 by a dee central notch 3 about one half as long as the base 1.

Fastened in a vertical position on the end of each leg 2 is a support 4 for a coil spring 5 forming a part of the scraper proper said support comprising a cylindrical core 6 disposed within the spring, a top and bottom cap 7 and 8 respectively, and a surrounding shell 9, concentric with the core, inclosing the s ring except at the rear where it is open as shown at 10. The edges of the caps are curved to overlie the ends of the shell 9 and the whole held in place by a bolt 11 passed through the caps 7 and 8, the core 6 and the leg 2 and fastened securely by a nut screwed on the bolt beneath the leg.

The scraper proper is preferably made of a single piece of steel or other resilient wire of suitable gage, the middle 12 of which is straight, and when applied to the base, extends across the same in a horizontal direction a short distance above the base to act on the sole of the shoe. Near each side of the base 1 the wire is bent downwardly to said base to form supports 13 for the sole scraper 12 and then forwardly thereon at 'each side as-at 14 to the cores 6 where it is coiled to form the springs 5 surrounding said cores. The wire then extends rearwardly in the form of two converging arms 15 towards the middle of the sole scraper 12 which the overlie slightly and in close proximity to each other. Each arm 15 is then given a short semi-circular bend 16 in a forward direction and then turned upward in a substantially vertical direction to form scrapers 17 for the sides of the shoe. Finally the ends of the wire are formed into two large rings 18 the extremities 19 of said wire after forming the rings 18 overlapping the side scra ers 17 and form auxiliary scrapers of the sides of the shoe. The rings 18 are made large enough to permit the foot entering therein so that the top of the shoe can be cleaned by means of the upper part of said rings. In addition to the su ports 4, the scraper is secured to the base l y staples or hook bolts 20, engaging the parts 14 thereof near the sole scraper 12, fastened by any suitable means on the under side of the base 1.

To remove adhering mud from a shoe, the foot is placed between the rings 18 and drawn rearwardly pressing first the heel and then the sole of the shoe on the sole scraper 12 which removes the mud therefrom. The bends 16 and side scrapers 17 and 19 because of their spring su port, hug both sides of the shoe and follow the contour thereof from the heel to the toe. Afterwards, or at first if desired, the foot is inserted in one of the rings 18 and the top of the shoe cleaned by press ing upward against the ring.

What is claimed is 1. A shoe cleaner including a pair of convergent spring wire arms arranged to on age the sides of the shoe, the free termina s of said arms being coiled to form scraping loops fplr engagement with the upper portion of t e s oe. I

2. In a shoe scraper, a base, a pair of stationary cylindrical supports carried thereby, and a scraping element formed of spring wire, the central portion of which is bent to form a sole scraper, and is thence bent forming a air of arms that are coiled around the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as cylin rical supports, the arms being conmy own, I have hereto afiixed my signature tinued forward on convergent lines and exin the presence of two Witnesses.

tending over the sole scraper, and thence EDGAR O. WARTENBEQ curving upward and terminating in loops or Witnesses: rings for the removal of dirt from the shoe DAVID L. LEHMAN,

uppers. J. GEO. DIEHIR. 

